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On Spam

03-03-2011, 06:34 AM

Michael i think you are the only one managing the forums and i know that a lot of your time goes to your other projects as well.

Sadly the forums get spamed and its annoying. May i suggest you to appoint some moderators in order to delete spam threads. The users are well mannered in general so the mods will only have to deal with spam.

No seriously, I second 89c51 words.
We need a trustworthy person to check the forums at least daily and move them to hidden spam folder. Or a thread to collectively report them. I strongly thing this is done by human spammers.

Comment

Not all spam is done by humans but by bots as well. If there are members on here who are familiar with vBulletin perhaps they should chime in and give Michael some solid advice and assistance. I agree we need some solid moderators on the forum to keep the spammers at bay as well as dealing with the occasional flamefest that pops up. By and large there's few problems with trolling by users or in users misbehaving so there's no real issue in that area but spam.

Suggest picking one person from each common timezone so there's always a moderator on duty. This arrangement should help Michael a lot